HOW IT BEGAN
Around 1970 the Bath Arts Workshop began the tradition that Connect Bath now continues on Christmas Day. Back then it was held in the old Sweetlands organ factory in Walcot Street, then the canteen of international engineering company Stothert and Pitt, then St Mark’s Church (now community centre) in Widcombe. It is now hosted in the impressive main dining hall of Kingswood School.
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Bath Arts Workshop's Christmas Lunch at Stothert & Pitt canteen, 1977, Queen Elizabeth II's silver jubilee year. Courtesy of Museum of Bath
Stothert & Pitt Canteen shown here from the 1991, now the site of The Mint Rooms. Courtesy of Bath in Time
Bath Arts Workshop's Christmas Lunch at St. Mark's Church, both 1978. Courtesy of Museum of Bath
